We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHow long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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